Category: Science & Geeks
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Office 2007 only loves French
We’re French, we’re finding this funny. Microsoft just confirmed that the installation of MS-Office 2007 rudely removes all non-French Outlook Express spelling checkers (why keep the French one?). I guess most non-French speaking people don’t like it since Microsoft does not seem to have a solution.
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WordPress 2.1.1 – Important security advice
If you have installed WordPress v2.1.1 (precisely this version), you should urgently download the version 2.1.2. A cracker succeeded in inserting a malicious code in the downloadable copy of this version and it means that your web site may be open to a vicious attack. Do not wait and check the WordPress web site.
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Lunar eclipse, visible in Europe
If you are in Europe, you are lucky. A full Lunar eclipse is happening on 3rd March 2007 (it’s not that uncommon because the Earth planet is big and near the Moon, so it hides the Sun quite often). The peak of the eclipse will be at: Paris: 4th March, 00:20 London: 3rd March, 23:20…
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Recent posts about RAID storage
RAID storage is using several hard disc drives together to improve the reliability (sometimes the performance) over what can be done with one single disc drive. The recent posts here: Creating a RAID-1 on OpenSUSE Testing RAID-1 on OpenSUSE Software RAID: a question of light
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Free online Photoshop
Adobe has been observing the desktop application market and specifically seen Google challenging Microsoft with its online Google desktop suite (spreadsheet, text processor, agenda, etc.). They determined that they want to go the same way in order to ensure a bright future for the Photoshop line. Currently, Adobe has already split its market niche between…
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A game for Friday afternoon
Thanks God It’s Friday! To celebrate this important event of the week, I offer you a special game: throw a ball of paper into the waste basket of your cubicle. It will soon be time to go back home.
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Best performance / noise ratio
As previously announced here, PowerColor just announced the launch of a graphics card based upon the AMD-ATI X1950 pro chipset in a totally silent version (PowerColor X1950 SCS3) that should immediately be awarded the title of the most powerful slinet grpahics card in the world. This is no small thing seeing the difficulty to cool…
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Internet loves UK Internet users
More precisely, according to an eMarketer market study, the companies advertising on the Internet are rushing to be in front of the English and French Internet users. Much more than for Italian, Spanish and German users. The exact origin of this difference is not well explained, but the advertising companies probably believe more in these…
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Video games on a wide screen
It seems clear that if you have interest in a video game that is not just out to the market (even if it is only a few months old), the addition of a new wide LCD display can be source of endless troubles. You may not find the game using all the nice display surface…